This is what Alice in Wonderland should have looked like, with bright colors on monochrome background and a clear depth. The pictures are amazing – both beautiful and creative. I guess the theme invites to nice photo: a vampire from Victorian New England (?) coming back in the nineteen seventies. Bringing a vendetta with the local witch (who is also the local fish canning tycoon…) and an irrepressible pride. The family’s goods and name shall be restored – with violence, sex and magic. It’s quite fun. But I miss the passionate screwyness from Sweeney Todd and The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is for teenagers – in the end it is the little son who saves the family, of course – so I have to accept that almost no one dies. It also lacks a consistent monster acting by Eva Green – her character remains inquestionably human despite all the supernatural powers she possesses, and despite all the violence she resists. Though Michelle Pfeiffer is good and quite hot as the firm but caring mother. It’s a nice triviality.